About this course

Entry requirements

a good quality undergraduate degree or relevant professional qualification

a teaching qualification (or its equivalent) or relevant experience within an educational setting

Months of entry

September

Course content

If you're already in employment and looking for a qualification that'll enhance your professional practice, this is the course for you.

It's a new part-time blended learning course, designed for professional people working in education who are already in or want to move into leadership roles.

The course draws on recent insights into educational leadership across the world. It focuses on leadership in a range of educational settings:

pre-school

school

further education

higher education

the voluntary sector

You'll develop your understanding of leadership, the purposes which educational leadership serves, school improvement, and the international, national and local policy contexts that shape how leadership is enacted.

You'll gain a thorough grounding in research methods and reasoning which will enable you to study an area of specific interest to yourself through a dissertation.

The course will enable you to:

build on your existing knowledge, understanding skills

develop insights into your own professional development and your understanding of yourself as a leader

build understanding which will enable you to develop your leadership capacities and skills

specialise in an area of specific interest to yourself

The course will be delivered by a high-quality team of staff, including experts in their fields of study with experience of leadership in educational settings.